RPMS News You Can Use

Volume V, Issue 2, November 2009

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An update is here - Version 7.9.13 is on the web


An update is here - Version 7.9.13 is on the web top

We've just published an update for all EMA-covered customers.  To run this update you must be an EMA subscriber through November of 2009 or beyond.  Download the update from this link: www.rpms.com/product/new/setup.exe

Instructions for processing the update can be previewed right here.  If you believe that you are eligible to install this update, you may want to double check to be sure that you have applied the EMA code you were sent when you last enrolled.  From within RPMS, click Help, then About RPMS V7.  The last line of the message indicates the last EMA coverage code applied.  The update will not run if the EMA Covered Through date is prior to November 30, 2009.

If you skipped the September 7.9.10 update or any previous, all the features of that update are installed with this release. This includes the database update of that release that will also be automatically applied by the first user in your agency to upgrade, if no one in the company has previously moved to 7.9.10.

This update has a great new enhancement for the E-Data feature, as well as a few miscellaneous and/or and minor bug fixes.  The E-Data feature now sets up and can use what we call an "Imap." Imaps are user-defined summary invoices maps of Excel files. Now, rather than having us program individual maps for each type of data that you receive, RPMS will allow you to set up your own maps for summary invoices or sales reports submitted via Excel. 

At this time, Imaps do not handle products or points of sale (POS), although those two types of data are planed for a future update. The Imaps are also not suitable for orders, non-excel data, or multiple record type files with necessary values on different record types.  To explore the Imap feature, in the Administration system select Utilities, then Imap Management. You can add, change, or delete an Imap even if you don't have the E-Data feature. However, you will need to have the E-Data feature to process an Imap using the E-Data wizard. For more information about the Imap feature, read chapter 8 of the updated Administrator's Guide that is installed with the update under Start, [All] Progams, RPMS Version 7, Documentation.

To see a video about the Imap feature, and the other enhancements provided in 2009 and prior years, watch the EMA Development Theater.

Other movies on-line include our comany introduction and demo, plus demonstrations of the E-Data Wizard, the Direct Marketing feature, and Setting up a Forecast.

If you are not eligible for this update, consider enrolling in our EMA program.  Contact us to sign up.


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